Shipping: Taiwan

(asked on 13th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the increased shipping costs for businesses in the UK importing products from Taiwan using shipping containers, and what steps he is taking to reduce the cost to those businesses.


Answered by
Robert Courts Portrait
Robert Courts
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 18th January 2021

We have not conducted an assessment on imports from Taiwan. Government has been working closely with the freight sector and wider business to mitigate the impact on UK supply chains of this global container issue.

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